IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pond Creek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956OK003020
  • User Pedon ID: S1956OK003020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4707
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41409
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.7361755
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3792419
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: sample from E side of NE 1/4, in no treatment gypsum plot series.
  • Map Unit: PcB—Pond Creek silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oklahoma
  • County: OK003—Alfalfa
  • MLRA: 80A—Central Rolling Red Prairies
  • Regional Office: SC—South Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SC-STW—Stillwater, Oklahoma
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36098-F4—Lambert, Oklahoma

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Tucker, Harry Galloway
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pond Creek
  • PSC - 56 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2016
  • Classifier - Jerry Weinheimer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grant
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1956
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—81

    56—81

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 22 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 13 percent clay; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35746. fibrous wheat roots concentrate in the upper 2" and run laterally across faces of compacted zones, which occur roughly at 1,2,3 and 8"; grades to the layer below.
    A—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 18 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; 5.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35747. Occasional fine pebbles and some micaceous flakes.
    AB—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 20 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35748. many pin holes, worm holes, and worm casts; weak shine on peds.; many fine roots
    Bt—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 21 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35749. occasional fine pebble of granite and quartz; weak shine on peds; firm but not compact.
    BC—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; loam; 37 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35750. with occasional bands of fine gravel which make up not over 10% of mass; less firm than the layer above
    C—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; , 1 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35751. many very fine pebbles.; many fine roots
    2Bb—127 to 163 centimeters (50.0 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior, moist; clay loam; 31 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate fine blocky structure; , 2 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A35752. weak shine on peds; fine roots present in pores and tubes; this layer is darker than the soil above and seems to be a buried B horizon.
    2C—163 to 198 centimeters (64.2 to 78.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6) interior, moist; loam; 37 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 23 percent clay; , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by weighed method. Lab sample # 40A35753. lenses of fine pebbles stratified with bands 1 to 1 1/2" thick of dark brn silty clay loam like the material in layer 7; fine roots present in a few pores; those appear to be live and fresh.